Improvement in honey-boxes



.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. JOHNSON AND THOMAS T. KEELEY, OF WASHINGTON, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HONEY-BOXES.

Specification forming partiof Letters Patent No. 191,593, dated June 5, 1877; application filed i April 2, 1877.

l the purpose of packing and shipping honey,

dried fruits, and similar articles, an improved box of cheap and substantial construction, which is made of parallel top and bottom thin boards connected by lateral metal corner-strips, and finished by sides and heads of paper and glass.

In the drawing, A represents two parallel or opposite sides of our improved box for packing honey and other articles, of which one hasan opening of suitable size; These sides are made of thin boards, and connected at the corners by angular metal strips B,

while the remaining sides 0 are formed of pa. per or pasteboard of suitable thickness, so as to be capable of resisting the strain to which the box is exposed.

The paper sides 0 are pasted over the metallic strips and over the edges of the wooden boards, binding thereby the whole box together.

By this construction a box of snflicient strength for packing such articles as honey, dried fruits, &c., is obtained, which combines at the same time tightness and cheapness.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A box for packing honey, dried fruit, and other substances, composed of thin board top and bottom, connecting metallic corner-strips, and closing sides, and one end of paper or pasteboard and the other end of glass, substantialiy as specified.

GEORGE FREDERIG JOHNSON.

THOMAS TURNER KEELEY. Witnesses:

R. W. ALBERsoN,

N. J. DAVIS. 

